According to one inventive concept, a metallopolymer material includes a plurality of nanoparticles, a base, and water. Each of the nanoparticles includes a plurality of oligomer segments, where oligomer segments are coordinated to adjacent oligomer segments. Each of the oligomer segments includes a thiol and a metal.

One-pot synthetic methods are disclosed for synthesizing curable, antimicrobial silsesquioxane-silica hybrids by hydrolytically co-condensing a tetraalkoxysilane with two different trialkoxysilanes. Particles are also disclosed that are substantially spherical and have an ordered lamellar internal structure. In addition, polymers prepared from the curable, antimicrobial silsesquioxane-silica hybrids and co-monomers are disclosed.

The present invention relates to a hybrid aerogel obtained by reacting an aromatic or aliphatic isocyanate compound and silanol moieties on a surface of a clay in a presence of a solvent. Hybrid aerogels according to the present invention provide high thermal insulation material, while good mechanical properties and performance is maintained.

A method of making a metal organic framework (MOF)-polymer composite material includes forming a homogeneous solution comprising a solvent, a metal salt, a polymer which is soluble in the solvent, and a reactant which can be synthesized to provide an organic linker during formation of a MOF structure, synthesizing the homogeneous solution to crystallize a MOF structure in the homogenous solution to yield the MOF structure distributed in a remainder solution, applying an antisolvent to the remainder solution with the MOF structure distributed in the remainder solution to form a polymer-rich phase, where the MOF structure is integrated into the polymer matrix during forming of the polymer matrix to produce a MOF-polymer composite material. The MOF-polymer composite material can be formed on a substrate to produce a MOF structured object, which can be a membrane, film, or other object.

A graphene-containing composite material comprises components of a composite functional material with a double-conductive channel and a polymer matrix. The composite functional material with a double-conductive channel is sulfonated graphene surface grafted conductive polymer poly-3,4-(ethylenedioxythiophene). The composite functional material with a double-conductive channel and the graphene-containing composite material can be used for preparing a piezoresistance response material or an antistatic or electromagnetic shielding material and the like, and have excellent piezoresistance response, piezoresistance repeatability and electromagnetic shielding effect. The present invention is simple and easy to operate, can be used in large scale production, has excellent piezoresistance performance and very sensitive piezoresistance response, with the percolation threshold being only 0.5 wt %; not only the original performance of the polymer can be maintained, but also an unstable conductive network system can be formed, which facilitates the improvement of the sensitivity of the piezoresistance response.

A hardmask composition includes a first material including one of an aromatic ring-containing monomer and a polymer containing a repeating unit including an aromatic ring-containing monomer, a second material including at least one of a hexagonal boron nitride and a precursor thereof, a chalcogenide-based material and a precursor thereof, and a two-dimensional carbon nanostructure and a precursor thereof, the two-dimensional carbon nanostructure containing about 0.01 atom % to about 40 atom % of oxygen, and a solvent.

Apparatus, systems, and methods for communicating data between a controller and a multiplicity of field devices operating in a process plant are provided. The system includes distributed marshaling modules coupled by a head-end unit to I/O cards in communication with the controller. The distributed marshaling modules communicate with the field devices via respective electronic marshaling components converting signals between the field devices and the I/O cards. The distributed marshaling modules are coupled to the head-end unit by a ring communication architecture, such that the distributed marshaling modules may each be located relatively proximate to the field devices to which they are coupled.

This application disclose an airtight film including a plastic base layer; a ceramic sealing layer formed on the plastic base layer; and a polymer sealing layer. The polymer sealing layer includes many polymer molecules chemically bonding to the ceramic sealing layer as a result of polymerization reactions of at least one monomer on the ceramic sealing layer as opposed to from coating of a pre-polymerized polymer composition on the ceramic sealing layer.

Polymers suitable for forming carbon nanotube-functionalized reverse thermal gel compositions, compositions including the polymers, and methods of forming and using the polymers and compositions are disclosed. The compositions have reverse thermal gelling properties and transform from a liquid/solution to a gele.g., near or below body temperature. The polymers and compositions can be injected into or proximate an area in need of treatment.

The present invention provides: a composition for low thermal expansion members, which is capable of forming a low thermal expansion member that has a thermal expansion coefficient close to those of the members within a semiconductor element, while having high heat resistance and high heat conductivity; and a low thermal expansion member. A composition for low thermal expansion members according to the present invention is characterized by containing: a heat conductive first inorganic filler that is bonded to one end of a first coupling agent; and a heat conductive second inorganic filler that is bonded to one end of a second coupling agent. This composition for low thermal expansion members is also characterized in that the first inorganic filler and the second inorganic filler are bonded to each other via the first coupling agent and the second coupling agent by means of a curing treatment.